International Financial Management Service Provider Slashes Monthly Phone Bill by 85% with VoSKY’s E
Centurion deploys PBX-to-Skype gateway and saves £2100 per month on calling costs
[UKPRwire, Tue Apr 07 2009] International financial management service provider, Group Centurion, has deployed a PBX-to-Skype gateway from VoSKY to benefit from low-cost Internet-based Skype calls.
Since the installation of the VoSKY Exchange Pro VIT1/E1 Centurion has reported an 85% cut in the cost of their monthly telephone bills. Their bill has been reduced from £2500 to £400, saving them a total of £2100 per month.
With offices in the UK, Cayman Islands, Mauritius, Argentina and Luxembourg, as well as 15 mobile users, Centurion’s international phone bills were costing on average £2500 per month. The company looked to find a cost-effective and easy-to-use solution, which would substantially reduce their calling costs, via their PBX handsets.
Centurion opted to connect the VoSKY-to-Skype Exchange to the E1 port on their Avaya IP Office 500 phone system to enable all employees to make, receive and transfer internet-based Skype calls in the same way as conventional phone calls.
Andrew Broster, head of IT for Group Centurion, said: “It was good to bring in a new system that integrated VOIP as it’s been great for business. VoSKY’s Exchange Pro VIT1/E1 has saved us a huge percentage of our monthly phone bill, enabling us to redirect resources into other areas of the company, and with savings like these we expect the whole VoSKY project to pay for itself in less than 6 months.
“We bought the equipment through our existing Avaya Business Partner and VoSKY reseller AbbiTek who has provided us with a strong level of support during the installation, but as the gateway is literally plug and play it was easily integrated with our existing infrastructure - deployment really couldn’t have been simpler.”
Centurion found the VoSKY gateway easy to install and integrate with their existing phone system. There is no need to use headsets for Internet calls because all inbound and outbound Skype calls are routed through users' regular desktop telephone handsets.
David Tang, global VP of marketing for VoSKY, said: “In the current economic climate businesses are looking to cut costs and make savings wherever they can. VoSKY’s Exchange gateways not only deliver considerable cost savings to companies in a managed way, but also enable them to increase business by making them more accessible to a more international market. The type of cost savings Centurion is experiencing is typical of what businesses using the Exchange gateways will realize savings of up to 90% over traditional telephony.”
The VoSKY Exchange Pro VIT1/E1 seamlessly integrates with existing corporate PBXs with T1 or E1 digital interfaces, allowing businesses to take advantage of Internet Telephony without replacing their existing network infrastructure. With a VoSKY Exchange gateway, employees can make and receive Skype calls from their regular office phone – no Skype software, computers, or headsets are required. The stand-alone, 1U rack-mountable appliance is easy for telecom/IT managers to configure and manage.
VoSKY's latest gateway can support up to 30 concurrent Skype calls using E1 ISDN PRI or up to 23 calls with T1 ISDN PRI, providing scalable performance for enterprise applications. With the VoSKY Exchange PBX-to-Skype gateways, businesses are able to deploy enhanced applications such as Voice VPN, Remote Access, Web Click-to-Call, Skype Trunking, Fixed Mobile Convergence and Global DID. These solutions help any size of business reduce costs and enhance communication within the company, as well as with customers and supply chain partners.
VoSKY’s PBX agnostic application gateways bridge the gap between Skype and any analogue, digital or IP PBXes via FXO/FXS, T1/E1 or SIP interfaces. The gateways can be installed in under half a day, with zero changes to existing PBX phone systems – and at a modest one-time cost.
Group Centurion supplies a range of bespoke services specialising in international tax and investment advice, fund management and offshore corporate and trust management services to a range of SMEs worldwide.
Based in the heart of Silicon Valley, VoSKY is the global leader in empowering businesses to leverage Skype, the world’s largest VoIP community. The company’s proven, enterprise-grade solutions create new opportunities for small-to-medium size businesses (SMBs) and enterprises to reduce communications costs and improve productivity. VoSKY Exchange, the company’s flagship product, is an award-winning PBX-to-Skype application gateway that seamlessly integrates a company’s phone system with Skype. This plug-and-play platform is compatible with any existing TDM or IP PBX phone system.
VoSKY is a wholly owned subsidiary of Actiontec Electronics. In addition to its headquarters in Sunnyvale, CA, VoSKY maintains branch offices in Colorado Springs, CO; Basingstoke, United Kingdom; Beijing, China; Bogota, Colombia; Shanghai, China; and Taipei, Taiwan. For more information please visit the VoSKY website at www.vosky.com.
